[CentOS] 75% - 80% Rebuild Complete

Wed Jun 6 00:59:38 UTC 2012
Markus Falb <markus.falb at fasel.at>

On 5.6.2012 17:15, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Gene Poole <gene.poole-swIuAdtPLFgAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> 3.      During the installation I instituted software raid-1 along with
>> LVM.  It all worked perfectly until I got to the Boot Loader screen and
>> instead of using the default (/dev/sda) I used what I thought would work
>> in a raid-1 environment IF one of the hard drives went bad.  I chose to
>> install the boot loader in /dev/md0.  Of course it would not boot.  I
>> recovered from this by going through the install and choosing to upgrade a
>> existing installation and it allowed me to place the boot loader in
>> /dev/sda.  What that leaves me with is a raid-1 environment that works
>> great as long as /dev/sda remains.  How do I fix that???
> 
> The MBR isn't mirrored, so you just have to install grub on the other
> drive, usually by executing grub

There is an open bugzilla
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=799501

I am irritated regularly about this. Because It WORKSFORME.
Of course the mbr isn't mirrored but at installation time it is written
to both disks.

I wipe the mbr of sdb, reinstall and after that
$ dd if=/dev/sdb count=1 bs=512|strings
shows something like GRUB, on *both disks*

in /root/anaconda-ks.cfg I find
bootloader --location=mbr --driveorder=sda,sdb ...

in the original kickstart there is
bootloader --location=mbr ...

I did it per kickstart, is this a problem with manual installs only?
Or only with upgrade mode (Gene said he used upgrade mode)?
But then again there is this bugzilla...
-- 
Kind Regards, Markus Falb

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